BRIAN Iddon MP has appealed to the Deputy Prime Minister to make the chief executives of housing associations accountable to tenants.
At the Commons debate, the Bolton South-east MP also expressed concern over the rocketing pay of directors of social housing groups.
Dr Iddon believes many are receiving salary increases on the back of council house stock transfers or a shift of their management to arms length management organisations, such as Bolton at Home.
He quoted one example of a housing director who had been earning around £70,000 in 1998 and who now has a salary of more than £140,000.
Dr Iddon asked Yvette Cooper, standing in for John Prescott: "Do you agree that, in the same way that some chief executives of private enterprises are now being held to account to their shareholders, chief executives of housing associations should be held accountable by their tenants?"
She agreed they should and said the Deputy Prime Minister had written to the Housing Corporation to ask for further work on the issue.
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